GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: The Hamas movement in Gaza on Friday welcomed the UN General Assembly's vote to grant the Palestinians upgraded non-member observer state status, calling it a "victory." "This is a new victory on the road to the liberation of Palestine and return and we congratulate ourselves," senior Hamas official Ahmed Yussef told AFP. "We in Hamas...

(Source: UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ) United Nations Headquarters - New York Monday, 24 November 2014 HE Mr. Chairman of the Committee of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, HE Mr. President of the General Assembly, HE Mr. President of the Security Council, He. Mr. Permanent Observer of the State of...

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The IDF revealed this week that it had discovered two tunnels dug from the Gaza Strip into Israel that were likely intended to be used for launching terror attacks. The sophistication of the undergrou...

Palestine secures ICC observer status

published:09 Dec 2014

Palestine secures ICC observer stat

Palestine secures ICC observer status

Palestine has secured an observer status at the International Criminal Court (ICC), which paves the way for the Palestinians to sue senior Israeli officials for war crimes.
The position was granted t...

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The Gaza Strip (Arabic: قطاع غزة‎ Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah, IPA: [qitˤaːʕ ɣazza]) lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, within the Middle East (at 31 25 N, 34 20 E). The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest, 11km long, and Israel on the east and north, 51km long. It is about 41 kilometres (25 mi) long, and between 6 and 12 kilometres (4–7.5 mi) wide, with a total area of 360 square kilometres (140 sq mi). It has a 40 km coastline onto the Mediterranean Sea, but has no maritime claims due to Israeli administration. The territory takes its name from Gaza-city, its main city and administrative center.

The IDF revealed this week that it had discovered two tunnels dug from the Gaza Strip into Israel that were likely intended to be used for launching terror attacks. The sophistication of the underground passages has amazed Israelis and foreign observers.

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On Gaza, ICP Asks Palestine's Mansour of US Ammo Transfers to Israel

On Gaza, ICP Asks Palestine's Riyad Mansour of US Ammo Transfers to Israel By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, July 31 -- Outside the UN Security Council ...

WorldLeadersTV: U.N. G-A to VOTE on PALESTINE OBSERVER STATE STATUS TODAY
MaximsNewsNetwork ( http://www.MaximsNews.com ) 29 November 2012: UNTV: United Nations, New York - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (29 November) stressed the urgency of stepping up efforts to get the Middle East peace process back on track, and urged Israelis and Palestinians to show courageous leadership to reach a two-State solution.
Ban, speaking to a meeting on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, said he shared "the deep and, indeed, global frustration that the two-State solution seems ever more distant."
He stressed that "the cost of the continued stalemate rises with each passing day and with each missed opportunity."
Ban said that is was against this "complex and wrenching backdrop, historic and present-day" that the Palestinians decided to seek Non Member Observer State status in the General Assembly.
Noting that "this is a matter for United Nations Member States to decide" he said it was "important for all concerned to approach this responsibly and constructively."
Established in 1977, the Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People marks the date in 1947 when the General Assembly adopted a resolution partitioning then-mandated Palestine into two States, one Jewish and one Arab.
Israelis and Palestinians have yet to resume direct negotiations since talks stalled in September 2010, after Israel refused to extend its freeze on settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory.
General Assembly President, Vuk Jeremić, in his address to the meeting said he understood "how deep the feelings of injustice may rightfully be", but said that "focusing exclusively on this will not close the book on an era of enmity in the Middle East."
He said it was important to "avoid bitter, self-perpetuating divisions, and their accompanying calls for more and more vengeance."
Musician and activist Roger Waters, founder of the group Pink Floyd, also addressed the meeting as a representative of civil society. He told delegates that "Israel and its allies would contend that Gaza is no longer occupied" but pointed out that the withdrawal of soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005 "changed the nature not the existence of occupation."
He said Israel "still controls Gaza's airspace, coastal waters, borders, land, economy and lives" and the "1.6 million Palestinians, half of them children under the age of 16, live in an open air prison."
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour broke into tears while thanking the members of Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People for their support in the quest for Non Member Observer State status in the General Assembly.
He said "when we succeed in accomplishing the objective of ending occupation and celebrating independence, there will be statues for you in our towns..."
Tension in the region increased as violence broke out earlier this month, with rocket attacks against Israel from Gaza and Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. The eight days of violence left an estimated 158 Palestinians dead, including 103 civilians, and approximately 1,269 injured. Six Israelis -- four civilians and two soldiers -- were reportedly killed by Palestinian rocket fire and 224 Israelis were injured, the vast majority civilians.
The violence ended when a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas was declared on 21 November in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
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Palestinian UN Observer Responds to Attacks

The Palestinian representative to the UN said on Saturday that there was no justification for the Israeli attack on security sites in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Sat...

Palestine secures ICC observer status

Palestine has secured an observer status at the International Criminal Court (ICC), which paves the way for the Palestinians to sue senior Israeli officials for war crimes.
The position was granted to Palestine at the summit meeting of the 122 ICC member states in New York on Monday.
The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, said the move paved the way for Palestine membership in the ICC, adding that the Palestinian government is moving in that direction "but that's another step in that process."
The Palestinian envoy further called the move "a further enhancement of our status" in the court, whose headquarters are at The Hague in the Netherlands, and in the international arena.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had threatened to join the court to sue Israel over crimes against Palestinians.
On November 29, 2012, the 193-member UN General Assembly voted to upgrade Palestine’s status to non-member observer state.
Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds, and the Gaza Strip and are demanding that Israel withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories.
Tel Aviv, however, has refused to return to the 1967 borders and is unwilling to discuss the issue of al-Quds.

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published:09 Dec 2014

updated:09 Dec 2014

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Gaza tense amid Israeli airstrikes

Three Palestinians wounded in Jenin clashes following Israeli arrest raid over three missing Israeli teenagers. Observers say the latest round of arrests cou...

After ICC Papers In, Palestine Tells ICP Retroactive to Gaza, Nigeria Excused?
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, January 2, more here -- Days after the UN Security Council rejected Palestine's draft resolution, Mahmoud Abbas on December 31 signed the Rome State to join the International Criminal Court. Inner City Press had asked Palestine's Permanent Observer Riyad Mansour about just this move back on December 11.
On January 2 just after the UN accepted Palestine's papers to join the ICC, Inner City Press asked Mansour if the decision has been made to ask for action on Israel at the ICC, and about the CRomnibus appropriations bill provision to cut US funding to the Palestinian Authority if it does so.
Mansour said Palestine has already asked the ICC Registrar for retroactivity to cover the last Gaza war in 2014, and that he would met with a representative of the ICC Registrar, who happened to be in New York, in an hour's time.
On the threatened funding cut, which Senator Chuck Schumer issued a press release about, Mansour said it was strange to punish the Palestinians for seeking justice.
Inner City Press also asked Mansour if Nigeria's absention on the Palestine resolution surprised him. He said to focus on the larger power, and that Nigeria's Explanation of Vote sounded like they had voted Yes.
So what happened?
On the afternoon of December 31, the US State Department's Jeff Rathke, Director of Office of Press Relations, put out this statement:
"We are deeply troubled by today’s Palestinian action regarding the ICC. It is an escalatory step that will not achieve any of the outcomes most Palestinians have long hoped to see for their people. Actions like this are not the answer. Hard as it is, all sides need to find a way to work constructively and cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence, and find a path forward.
"Today’s action is entirely counter-productive and does nothing to further the aspirations of the Palestinian people for a sovereign and independent state. It badly damages the atmosphere with the very people with whom they ultimately need to make peace.
"As we’ve said before, the United States continues to strongly oppose actions – by both parties – that undermine trust and create doubts about their commitment to a negotiated peace. Our position has not changed. Such actions only push the parties further apart.
"Every month that goes by without constructive engagement between the parties only increases polarization and allows more space for destabilizing actions. Our efforts should focus on creating an environment for meaningful talks.
"While we are under no illusions regarding the difficult road of negotiations, direct negotiations are ultimately the only realistic path for achieving the aspirations of both peoples. All of us would like to see the day when that effort can resume, and can lead to the peace that we all know is the only real, sustainable answer to the underlying causes of this conflict."
The document is supposed to be filed or deposited with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is listed as on "annual leave." (Ban's spokespeople have no press briefing scheduled for today.)
The ICC, of course, is no panacea. Sudan's Omar al Bashir, for example, was been indicted by the ICC for genocide, but still UN officials like Herve Ladsous meet with him without providing explanations. Still, Abbas said he would do something, and now he has.
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published:02 Jan 2015

updated:02 Jan 2015

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Top 10 Largest Cities or Towns of State of Palestine

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1. East Jerusalem
2. Gaza
3. Khan Yunis
4. Jabalia
5. Hebron
6. Nablus
7. Rafah
8. Deir el-Balah
9. Beit Lahia
10. Tulkarm
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http://www.geonames.org/PS/largest-cities-in-palestine.html
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The State of Palestine (Arabic: دولة فلسطين‎ Dawlat Filasṭīn) is a de jure sovereign state in the Levant. Its independence was declared on 15 November 1988 by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Algiers as a government-in-exile. The State of Palestine claims the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and has designated Jerusalem as its capital, with partial control of those areas assumed in 1994 as the Palestinian Authority. Most of the areas claimed by the State of Palestine have been occupied by Israel since 1967 in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. The State of Palestine applied for full UN Membership in 2011; and in 2012 was recognized as a non-member observer state by the United Nations.
The October 1974 Arab League summit designated the PLO as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" and reaffirmed "their right to establish an independent state of urgency." In November 1974, the PLO was recognized as competent on all matters concerning the question of Palestine by the UN General Assembly granting them observer status as a "non-state entity" at the UN. After the 1988 Declaration of Independence, the UN General Assembly officially "acknowledged" the proclamation and decided to use the designation "Palestine" instead of "Palestine Liberation Organization" in the UN. In spite of this decision, the PLO did not participate at the UN in its capacity of the State of Palestine's government.
In 1993, in the Oslo Accords, Israel acknowledged the PLO negotiating team as "representing the Palestinian people", in return for the PLO recognizing Israel's right to exist in peace, acceptance of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and its rejection of "violence and terrorism". As a result, in 1994 the PLO established the Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) territorial administration, that exercises some governmental functions[iii] in parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In 2007, the Hamas takeover of Gaza Strip politically and territorially divided the Palestinians, with Abbas's Fatah left largely ruling the West Bank and recognized internationally as the official Palestinian Authority, while Hamas has secured its control over the Gaza Strip. In April 2011, the Palestinian parties signed an agreement of reconciliation, but its implementation had stalled until a unity government was formed on 2 June 2014.
On 29 November 2012, in a 138-9 vote (with 41 abstentions and 5 absences), the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 67/19, upgrading Palestine from an "observer entity" to a "non-member observer state" within the United Nations system, which was described as de facto recognition of the PLO's sovereignty. Palestine's new status is equivalent to that of the Holy See; similarly, Switzerland was a non-member observer state for more than 50 years (until 2002). The UN has permitted Palestine to title its representative office to the UN as "The Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations", and Palestine has instructed its diplomats to officially represent "The State of Palestine"—no longer the Palestinian National Authority. On 17 December 2012, UN Chief of Protocol Yeocheol Yoon declared that "the designation of 'State of Palestine' shall be used by the Secretariat in all official United Nations documents", thus recognising the title 'State of Palestine' as the state's official name for all UN purposes. As of 30 October 2014, 135 (69.9%) of the 193 member states of the United Nations have recognised the State of Palestine. Many of the countries that do not recognise the State of Palestine nevertheless recognise the PLO as the "representative of the Palestinian people". The PLO's Executive Committee is empowered by the Palestinian National Council to perform the functions of government of the State of Palestine. On 25 May 2014 during his visit to the Holy Land, Pope Francis, in a carefully worded statement, made explicit reference to the "State of Palestine".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Palestine

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published:05 Dec 2014

updated:05 Dec 2014

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Fearing the collapse of Palestinian Authority

The fiscal crisis in the Palestinian Authority (P.A) has so far prevented it from paying its employees both in the West Bank and Gaza. Experts have warned of...

Holy See: 'There can be no winners' in Gaza offensive

http://en.romereports.com Arch. Silvano Tomasi spoke before the a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council. The Vatican's Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva reinforced the Pope's official stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, calling for an immediate ceasefire to the fighting.
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published:26 Jul 2014

updated:26 Jul 2014

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UN votes to give Palestine non-member status

http://www.euronews.com/ The UN General Assembly has decided to upgrade Palestine from an observer to non-member status. There was joy from many inside the A...

GAZA 2014 | Jon Snow 'annihilates' Israeli spokesperson Mark Regev

Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow destroys the Prime Minister of Israel's Chief Spokesperson, Mark Regev, live on air on British television; questioning Israeli military attacks on Al-Wafa hospital and an attack which killed three young boys playing ball on a Gaza beach while Regev continues to claim "the Israeli military does not target civilians."
Broadcast date: Wednesday 16th July, 2014.
More at: http://www.channel4.com/news
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published:17 Jul 2014

updated:17 Jul 2014

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Euro-Mid human rights group investigates Israeli assault on Gaza

A human rights group says Israel must be held accountable for the war crimes it has committed during the 50-day offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Geneva-based nonprofit organization, Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights, says Israel has violated the international law. The human rights watchdog, which conducted an investigation into Tel Aviv’s recent war on Gaza, has slammed Israel for indiscriminately attacking civilians and deliberately killing them. Euro-Mid has also documented the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields by Israeli forces in at least six cases in the southern city of Khan Yunis. The group says the civilians were forcibly held for days to protect Israeli soldiers from fire.
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